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      Sun Microsystems Announces $66 Million Financing

SunFLASH Vol 12 #9					 December 1989 
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     MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - December 15, 1989 - Sun
Microsystems, Inc.  (SUNW), announced today that it has con-
cluded an agreement with a group of insurance companies and
will receive approximately $66 million from the sale of
10.55% Senior Notes due 1996 and warrants to purchase
404,000 shares of Sun's common stock at $24.80 per share.

     Sun Microsystems, Inc., headquartered in Mountain View,
Calif., is a leading worldwide supplier of network-based
distributed computing systems, including professional works-
tations, servers and UNIX(R) operating system and produc-
tivity software.

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UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T.  All other products
or services mentioned in this document are identified by the
trademarks or service marks of their respective companies or
organizations.


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